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Favorite Hidden Google Features?

Posted by Cliff on from the have-fun-with-it dept.

fredtheshingle asks: "Google now seems to allow you the option to track your FedEx and UPS shipments! Search using the tracking number for either carrier and a page that offers to track the package appears. Simply follow that link and the carrier's current status report is displayed. Nice! So what's your favorite hidden Google feature?"

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  1. Define: by unixbum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The "define:" clause which comes in very handy... define: PHP

    1. Re:Define: by CMiYC · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Interesting....

      define: google

    2. Re:Define: by clbyjack81 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Here's a pretty neat little trick...in the google search bar type in...

      "french military victories" and click the 'I'm feeling lucky' button!

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    3. Re:Define: by rowanxmas · · Score: 2, Informative

      The best is "santorum", which was an effort on the part of lots of Savage Love readers to defile the name of Senator Rick Santorum.

    4. Re:Define: by TobySmurf · · Score: 4, Informative

      You are now my personal savior - I didn't know about that one at all! For everyone else: Here is the link to the main google capabilities - I'm sure there is something new for nearly everyone: http://www.google.com/help/features.html

  2. My favorite Google Feature by Neop2Lemus · · Score: 4, Funny
    Great French Military Victories & click I'm feeling Lucky.

    But then, given the /. debates here, I'm sure you all know that already.

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    1. Re:My favorite Google Feature by damiam · · Score: 2, Informative

      That's not a Google feature. It's just some guy who googlebombed this page. Google had nothing to do with it.

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    2. Re:My favorite Google Feature by stienman · · Score: 4, Informative

      Doesn't work anymore. Here's the google watch link to an article about the prank.

      -Adam

    3. Re:My favorite Google Feature by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 2, Informative

      Uh, Whatever buddy.

      The "French Military Victories" +I'm feeling lucky does too work.

      Check it out for yourself: Here

      Pity you can't fact check before looking like a complete idiot.(but that's slashdot eh?)

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    4. Re:My favorite Google Feature by SchnellDavis · · Score: 2, Interesting
      The trick still works fine, but you got the search term wrong, it's not "Great French Military Victories," it's just "French Military Victories." Here's the full search results

      (Clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky" just opens the first link automatically, and makes for a better punchline if you're showing a friend.)

  3. The Standards by amcnabb · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure if I know of any that aren't pretty much common knowledge. Anyway, it's fun to search for "answer to life the universe and everything". I also like the calculator function: just enter "2 + 2". The ability to search for "definition any-word-you-want" is nice, too.

    But of course, the best hidden feature is the ability to search for "litigious b******s" and to have the most relevant link appear first. In fact, you can leave off the word "litigious" and it still works, now that so many people have put links with that phrase on their web pages.

    1. Re:The Standards by daviddennis · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I was amused by the fact that Calculator answered that query, so I did a little experimentation.

      Turns out that it's a numeric variable built into Calculator! Search for:

      10 * answer to life the universe and everything + 5

      and you'll get back:

      (10 * answer to life the universe and everything) + 5 = 425

      The Ghost of Douglas Adams would smile at that one. Or he'd be sick of hearing about 42 and slam the door in their face. Who knows which? I guess we'll never know :-(.

      It sure brightened up my morning, on a chill rainy day, and that must count for something.

      D

  4. Re:Calculator and spell checker by Bombcar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Forgot to give an example:

    Google Calculation

    And the ever popular Question

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  5. Re:Calculator and spell checker by iota · · Score: 5, Informative

    A list of some of the google features available:
    http://www.google.com/help/features.ht ml

  6. Fave "hidden" feature by redfiveneo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's just say Google images. ...with SafeSearch off. ;)

    1. Re:Fave "hidden" feature by orthogonal · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yeah, but that means letting them use cookies. No thanks

      I, too, prefer not to let Google set cookies. So far Google has been -- so far as I know -- a good respecter of privacy, but their insistence on recording all searches, along with the requesting IP address, gives me serious pause.

      It's not that Google is evil, but that reposing that much information in any hands is a temptation to evil -- either on Google's part, or on the part of whomever ends up controlling it when and if Google goes public, or on the part of whatever government can issue subpoenas, or whatever lawyer can get subpoenas issued.

      I'd feel much more comfortable if Google would purge its records of searches, or at least remove the IP addresses, but I suppose they have their reasons. I'll let you guess what those reasons might be.

      Imagine Microsoft subpoenaing Google for the IP of whomever searched for "leaked Microsoft source" and then using that to allege an open source project is built on top of proprietary Microsoft code.

      This is why I won't use the Google toolbar, and why for especially sensitive searches, e.g., "STD symptom" or "John Ashcroft calico cat", I go through an anonymizing proxy.

      But while the easiest and permanent way to set image search SafeSearch off is through a cookie, I believe it can also be set per individual search using a check box that is sent to Google in the http GET as a parameter, bypassing cookies.

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    2. Re:Fave "hidden" feature by J'raxis · · Score: 5, Informative
      You can turn SafeSearch off by adding "safe=off", by hand, to the URL. "filter=0" is also useful; this prevents Google from hiding multiple images originating from the same host.

      Here's what I use. If you use Mozilla, make a bookmark out of the following (fix the spaces Slashdot inserted):
      http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&filter=0&hl=e n&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off
      Give the bookmark a keyword such as "gis". Now, when you type "gis foo" into the address bar, it goes to this URL, replacing the "%s" in the URL with "foo".

      [Those other parameters are language, input encoding, and output encoding, respectively.]
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    3. Re:Fave "hidden" feature by Motherfucking+Shit · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I'd feel much more comfortable if Google would purge its records of searches, or at least remove the IP addresses, but I suppose they have their reasons. I'll let you guess what those reasons might be.
      I won't bother making you guess, I'll get straight to the point. There have been rumors for some time now that Google's largest paying clients are governments.

      This rumor rings particularly true with Google Groups. So, you post something controversial to Usenet with "X-No-Archive: Yes." You, me, and every other average Joe don't see the post in groups.google.com. But guess who does see it? How about well-funded clients who are paying Google a premium to access archives of supposedly "unarchived" Usenet posts?

      The same can be said of binaries. If Google has the resources to cache just about every web page in existance, and a newsfeed strong enough to capture all of the text groups, then they certainly have the resources to maintain an archive of Usenet binaries. Imagine the spook potential of having access to every mp3/warez/child porn/etc binary Usenet post for long enough to conduct an investigation, with the ability to search back through reasonably recent posts to prove prior offenses by the same person. Absolutely priceless.

      I have to admit that if I were running the show at Google, I'd quickly cave in to governmental or other high-paying requests to archive things that the general public thought I wasn't archiving. Monetary offers to do this sort of clandestine spidering - whether by governments or wealthy individuals - are almost certainly too outrageous to pass up.

      Just food for thought.
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    4. Re:Fave "hidden" feature by cicho · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I wish people would stop with the "you've got nothing to hide" argument. There are legal things which are immoral and there are moral things which are illegal. Then you must also ask "legal - where?" and "moral - where, when and to whom?"

      Things once legal tend to become otherwise. If you feel you've got nothing to hide because you've never done anything illegal, you better pray that none of the things you've done ever becomes illegal. Or even immoral, especially if you might one day run for public office or be involved in a lawsuit.

      Me having sex with my SO is legal. That doesn't mean I want information about it out in the open.

      Me buying large numbers of left-wing books from Amazon is also perfectly legal, but could put me on a no-fly list if I ever travel to the US.

      But above all - YOU will not decide what I should or should not hide, nor will any company or any government. That choice is mine.

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    5. Re:Fave "hidden" feature by JoeBuck · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This is just stupid. X-No-Archive tells Google not to archive it, but anyone who gets a full Usenet feed the old-fashioned way is fully capable of archiving it, without any help from Google. Same with anything else on Usenet. You young 'uns seem to think that Usenet is a Google facility. The way Usenet works, there is a Path: header on every post that allows the post to be traced back to the point where it entered Usenet. The government does not need to subpeona Google to get a copy of everything on Usenet, all they need is to find peers who will feed the whole thing to them, completely in the open. If you post to Usenet, you are giving your posting to the world, including to the governments of the world.

  7. unit conversion by jhawk94 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As a physics/physical science lab instructor at the local university, the discovery of the unit conversion feature on Google has been extremely handy. Now when students ask whether their conversion are correct or not, I can point them to a quick easy place where they can check their own work.

    In the google search box type "80 calories in joules" and voila.

    1. Re:unit conversion by RockyMountain · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yeah, but don't ask it for 80 hertz in radians per second. It gives the wrong answer (off by a factor of 2*pi).

  8. Re:Calculator and spell checker by Bombcar · · Score: 4, Funny

    And for the lazy, I searched google and found a link: Google Features

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  9. Google's Best Feature by tiny69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ego Surfing!!!

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    1. Re:Google's Best Feature by brunson · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I was just discussing this with a friend. For those of us steeped in the lore of the internet, it's called "Kiboing"

      See: jargon kibo

      Or better yet: Who's got the biggest ego?

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  10. Google Calculator by Lendrick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only does it do math, it's also got a bunch of constants built in, and it can convert units on the fly, even to some more esoteric ones. Try entering the following searches

    gravitational constant
    speed of light in cubits per fortnight
    mass of jupiter in stones
    radius of earth * 2 * pi in light years

    It's enough to keep a science nerd occupied for hours. :)

    1. Re:Google Calculator by Undefined+Parameter · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's still missing a few things; for instance, it won't tell me the speed of an unladen swallow in knots.

      But I do like the speed of light in cubits per fortnight. The history geek in me is still laughing. :)

      ~UP

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    2. Re:Google Calculator by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's because you need a separate unit for African and European Swallows... :-)

    3. Re:Google Calculator by wrexsoul · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I actually use google calculator a lot. I can't remember the last time I needed to know how much a Newton was in slug-hands per month squared (1 Newton = 4.66403422 x 1012 (slug hands) per (month squared)), but it's actually invaluable to me while I'm studying in Japan, and namely, trying to adjust myself (and mostly my recipes) to metric.

      I swear, cooking is probably one of the biggest things holding the metric system back, with its much-prized teaspoons (~5 mL), tablespoons (~15 mL), cups (~200 mL), and ounces (~30 grams). Fortunately, I have accustomed myself to cooking by eye (I can measure a teaspoon pretty accurately in the palm of my hand), but still, it's important to know just how hot to make a 350 oven (180 C).

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    4. Re:Google Calculator by Gudlyf · · Score: 2, Funny
      Damn...this didn't work:

      airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow in miles per hour

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    5. Re:Google Calculator by AndrewRUK · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well of course that won't work, you're not saying whether you mean an African Swallow or a European one.

    6. Re:Google Calculator by Chess_the_cat · · Score: 2, Informative

      Ask Jeeves.

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    7. Re:Google Calculator by (startx) · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Airspeed of an unladen swallow

      found through google of course.

  11. Travel information by Bombcar · · Score: 4, Informative

    This seems pretty cool....

    Google knows all, ask the google, google will know....

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  12. non-hidden features by SkewlD00d · · Score: 3, Informative

    the non hidden features i use alot are quoting "some phrase like this" and excluding TLD's like -site:com -site:edu etc.

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  13. meanin' o' liff by warmgun · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always liked this gag. Now if we can just find that question...

  14. ~stuff by outlier · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's amazing how helpful the "~" can be when doing searches. Prefixing a word with a tilde will search for that word and many of its synonyms. Very helpful when doing things like:

    linux ~tutorial

    Also, I think this list of google tricks was listed on /. a while ago.

  15. Re:Features List by aquasheep · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, this is the link to Google's features.

  16. bork bork bork! by sdibb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seerch zee Veb

  17. Spell Checker by globalar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know I'm not alone here. Everytime I punch in a commonly misspelled word, dictionary.com, hyperdictionary, etc. is in the first couple links.

    It's probably so often used, it's practically overlooked as feature.

  18. feature preview by LoganEkz · · Score: 5, Informative

    And don't forget Google Labs for a taste of things to come.

  19. Reverse Phone Lookups by arrow · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have caller ID, or hit Star 69, and do not immediately recognize the number, punch it into google. Bonus: maps to the street address on file for that number.

    It's a little picky on format (you have to do (555) 555-4444, not 5555554444 or 555-555-4444), but in general very awesome.

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    1. Re:Reverse Phone Lookups by rlowe69 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's a little picky on format (you have to do (555) 555-4444, not 5555554444 or 555-555-4444)

      It's probably really picky because of the Google calculator. The other versions of the phone number you have there are valid mathematical expressions.

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  20. NOT by sakusha · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yesss! I constantly use the NOT operator, the minus sign before keywords or domains etc. You can refine searches to almost anything with AND (the default operator) and NOT.

    I used to like AltaVista's old logical operators, which included parentheses for nested operations. I could do things like
    ((foo AND bar) OR (foo AND baz))
    but I don't think Google supports anything like this.

  21. Re:Calculator and spell checker by kernelistic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you know that 129263.376 rods per cubic yards is 2 miles per gallon? :-)

  22. Froogle for the frugal. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Informative


    Froogle, for those who like to be careful with money.

  23. UPC barcode lookup... by TeddyR · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google also allows you to do a lookup on a UPC code.. (it actually uses the database from www.upcdatabase.com)

    works great if you have one of those modified cue cats

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  24. Searching in Klingon, Swedish Chef, or Elmer Fudd by dgmartin98 · · Score: 4, Funny

    These people @ Google really have a sense of humor. My favorite funny feature is the ability to do all your Google searches in your choice of Klingon, Bork Bork Bork! (Swedish chef from the Muppets), or Elmer Fudd.

    Dave

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  25. Regular Expressions by Michael.Forman · · Score: 5, Funny


    My favorite feature is the ability to search for items using regular expressions. Just type the string "site:/^[cs].*?edu$/" and BAM! You get jack squat.

    Some day our Linux search engine heros will grace us with regular expressions.

    Open Source Industrial Music.
    Michael.

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  26. Re:Pity the Google Calculator has a bug, though. by d99-sbr · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, it inteprets "in" as inches, and the output defaults to SI. So it's correct.

  27. This "hidden" category... by Masa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This Google Directory Category directly under the toplevel: Adult.

    I have no idea, why it is always hidden (even if the content filtering is turned off) or how to reach it from the toplevel.

    1. Re:This "hidden" category... by vidnet · · Score: 2, Funny

      Who are the lucky bastards who get paid to maintain this tree?

    2. Re:This "hidden" category... by justMichael · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's just dmoz, so these people:

      ettore, ffabris, gigi, hotpink, hudson, jezebel, peterrobson, seepatrick, susies, wilky

      Although they don't get paid ;-)

  28. Have you seen by dtfinch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google's Britney Spears page?

    1. Re:Have you seen by Bambi+Dee · · Score: 2, Funny

      How come nobody, not even people who somehow manage to come up with "pretny" or "brither", misspells "Spears"?

    2. Re:Have you seen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      britney6 spears

      I bet this person was typing with one hand. :)

    3. Re:Have you seen by Bambi+Dee · · Score: 2, Funny
      Well, they do correct, for example, "brotuny spiers": Did you mean: britney spears

      (Sheesh, what a way to spend an afternoon.)

  29. AAA-PPP-NNNN *is* valid! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Googling for 225-922-5400 works, so I don't follow your comment about not being able to use that style.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=225-922-5400

  30. Best units to convert with google calculator. by Myco · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've been having fun converting moles to baker's dozens -- what else ya got?

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  31. kewl languages by boogy+nightmare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a klingon google or a a l337 google kewl huh!!

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  32. Google Wireless by Laverne · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found out that google offers a wireless search engine. Just go to that URL with your mobile, enter your search query and google will convert any site it returns to WAP format that your mobile can handle.

  33. Wildcard searches by grungeKid · · Score: 4, Informative

    The * character works as a wildcard when searching for strings. Try this one for some variations of a famous quote.

  34. Google ~Guide by Frambooz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a page that lists a bunch of features. Handy dandy.

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  35. OT: My favorite quote about regular expressions by Big+Sean+O · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

    --Jamie Zawinski, in comp.lang.emacs

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  36. Google H4xx0r by skinfitz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google H4xx0r is quite amusing.

  37. Re:Calculator and spell checker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It helped me as well. Doc Brown.

  38. Favorite Hidden feature by benj_e · · Score: 2, Funny

    My website after the last update.

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  39. 2 things by 0x20 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The calculator and the unit conversions are cool. But what I use most are:

    1. The Dot. Instead of "search string", search.string works.

    2. Search By Location (currently in google labs, hopefully to be released soon). I made a mycroft plugin for it. Download and unzip to your mozilla/firefox searchplugins directory, edit googleloc.src to reflect your zip code, restart browser, and it'll appear in your search dropdown. Just choose it from the dropdown and enter a query, say "pizza hut" or whatever, and bang, you get your nearest pizza huts with map and distances. (It'll stop working when search by location is eventually moved out of labs.google.com, obviously)

  40. Re:What people think of you by Minam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, there's Googlism -- just type in a name or a place it does a Google search, extracting the relevant results to give a summary of what was returned. Quite amusing, really.

  41. Re:Calculator and spell checker by sbennett · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the ever popular Question

    How about this one?

  42. It's not really a feature, per se... by josh+glaser · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...but if you type in your search terms twice (monkeys monkeys) you tend to get better results, because that (I believe) only looks for sites with "monkeys" written twice, removing sites just linking to the topic (and the glut of link directory things). It's cool.

  43. something I miss from altavista: by dnight · · Score: 2, Interesting


    They had a link that would return a random result out of the database. Many a boring night was saved by that link. Does anyone know if google has something similar?

    1. Re:something I miss from altavista: by almightyjustin · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I don't think Google has one built in but you can use this site to do the same sort of thing using Google.

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  44. Yes, but ... by JohnQPublic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try 40 rods per hogshead in miles per gallon, and all you get are Simpsons references. Of course, one of the first is Shafe's Simpsons Stuff - Grandpa's Hogshead Converter, so it works. Sort of.

  45. for finding wares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I like to search for:
    • +"Index of" +filename.exe +"parent directory"
    1. Re:for finding wares by irokitt · · Score: 2, Informative

      If you want to restrict to servers and not just pr0n sites that include "parent directory" in their site, try using apache as a search term as well.

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  46. Evil Cookies by fm6 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    What's the issue with cookies? Obviously, you want to block most 3rd-party cookies. But to uniformly refuse to use first-party cookies is silly. Unless you don't trust anybody to keep track of when you're visited their web site.

    Oh, you don't want anybody keeping track of your activities and transactions? Then you can't use a credit card, you can't write checks, you can't ever show anybody your driver's license or social security card. Which means you can't legally hold a job in the U.S.!

    I think cookie-phobia is a sort of an inverse example of what Bruce Schneir calls the Line-Item Fallacy of Security. He's refering to people who think the solution to their security problems is to just buy a bunch of magic technology that will solve their problems for them. But there also seems to be an attitude that some technology is tainted by the evil anti-security/anti-privacy boojum, and by avoiding it you also solve your security problems. Not true. As Schneir keeps saying, security is not a product, it's a process. And of course privacy is an aspect of security.

    Cookies are presumed to be evil because they can be used to gather information. But you can't avoid giving out information. The best you can do is avoid giving information to people you don't trust.

    What, you don't trust Google? Fine, then configure your browser to only allow cookie settings to trusted sites, and don't add google.com to the list. That way you can at least use Slashdot without logging in.

    What, you don't trust Slashdot? Then why are you even using it? They're perfectly capable of tracking your activities on their site without using cookies.

    You don't trust your browser to enforce your cookie policy? Then you're already screwed, cause you've been trusting your browser not to not use cookies at all.

    It's not about what technology is evil and what isn't. It's about who you trust and who you don't.

  47. je ll gho nerds... by Cyno01 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    naDev

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  48. Re:Calculator and spell checker by rolocroz · · Score: 5, Funny

    The page is Slashdotted - here's a Google cache..

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  49. Re:Calculator and spell checker by 00420 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow that's pretty cool too.

    Google can help you find some pretty cool things.

    I just learned that with my internet service I can theoretically download 11 terrabytes per year.

    I really need a bigger hard drive :0

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  50. Re:Searching in Klingon, Swedish Chef, or Elmer Fu by X-wes · · Score: 2, Informative

    And for our "elite"-feeling friends... 1337 h4x0r

  51. Other Oogles by foote · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Once, for the hell of it, I tried www.boogle.com. It's Google with a different quote and a different pretty picture each time you go. So, just for more hell of it, I tried a bunch of other oogles just now. Here are a few:

    joogle.com - a directory site. Never used it or heard of it.

    koogle.com - same as joogle.com.

    moogle.com - Part of Strayer University. Never used it or heard of it.

    noogle.com - Part of moogle.com

    ooogle.com - sex

    roogle.com - not taken

    toogle.com - got a casino alert box and then sent to usseek.com

    uoogle.com - redirected to sharewareisland.com

    voogle.com - get free email addresses and a disturbing picture of a frog in a bikini.

    woogle.com - same redirect as toogle.com, to usseek.com

    xoogle.com - not taken

    yoogle.com - under construction

    zoogle.com - Xaraya Content Management Solutions

  52. Google sets set the standard by vinit79 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google sets (In google labs)

    http://labs.google.com/sets

    Its amazing, the google engine at its best. If u havnt tried it yet give it a go.

    Vinit

  53. Re:# of cubic inches in one gallon?!!? by Lao-Tzu · · Score: 2, Informative

    2(pi)rh would give you the circumference. (pi)r^2 would give you the area.

  54. "I don't think it means what you think it means" by alexo · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Me having sex with my SO is legal. That doesn't mean I want information about it out in the open.

    As far as I know, having sex with your Superior Officer is universally illegal.

  55. Set preferences without using Google's cookie by whovian · · Score: 4, Informative

    I, too, prefer not to let Google set cookies.

    1. Enable cookies. 2. Go to http://www.google.com/ 3. Click on "Preferences" on the right side of the search box. 4. Set your preferences and click "Save Preferences." You're back to the search box. 5. Click on "Advanced Search" on the right side of the search box. 6. Do not fill out anything, but just click on "Google Search." 7. Bookmark this new search page. 8. Delete your Google cookie. 9. Disable all cookies, or at least your cookies for Google. Now when you use your new bookmark for Google searches, your preferences are passed to Google in the URL, without a cookie.

    (Reference: http://www.searchguild.com/printer/fm1/792)

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  56. Top level directories narrowing searches by John+Q.+Public · · Score: 2, Informative

    Instead of searching with site=microsoft for Windows fixes, you can get a search of many many things related to MS by using http://google.com/microsoft which turns up a ton more answers than the MS KB or any other search I've found.

    Also works with /linux and Macintosh...

    Turns out they're on the instruction pages, more's the pity. I thought they were unpublished.

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  57. google tracking clicks from Main page by ncr53c8xx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone else notice that google now tracks all the links from the main page? Google now knows which links you go to. It has the format http://www.google.com/url?&URL&e=tracking.

    1. Re:google tracking clicks from Main page by ncr53c8xx · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I can't find my searches doing anything like that.

      You probably don't run many searches. Upon further research, it seems that they have announced that they will track users who do more than a certain number of queries, but the count is kept using cookies, so if you refuse cookies you should be OK.

  58. Try this one: by Otto · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Kinda neat.

    http://random.bounceme.net

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  59. Google Stats by shermster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like the Google Zeitgeist . Interesting stats from Google users around the world. Imagine the marketing potential of this info.

  60. Re:Calculator and spell checker by spongman · · Score: 3, Funny

    one of my favorites

  61. Thank you google drone? by quinkin · · Score: 2, Funny
    Thank you google drone - hope this helps your IPO...

    Q.

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  62. Google Toolbar and View PDF as HTML by aldridge · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Google Toolbar. Not very hidden but its amazing. http://toolbar.google.com/ Has a built in popup blocker search box and best of all its free and no spyware. Also the View PDF as HTML http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:xWrqav2j1Y8J:w ww.boston.com/globe/acrobat/today.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UT F-8 Lets just I dont like AdobePDF files.

  63. I love by IronBlade · · Score: 2, Funny

    I love the feature which lists their features... oh, wait, it's just their features page...

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